One of the Best Books of the YearELLE • Autostraddle • Debutiful • Chicago Review of Books • MUBI • Dazed • LitHub • Library Journal • them •Loosey“Devious and diabolical, Herculine is a jaw-dropping and completely unpredictable literary bewitchment about trauma, desire, and identity.” —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since ...

One of the Best Books of the YearELLE • Autostraddle • Debutiful • Chicago Review of Books • MUBI • Dazed • LitHub • Library Journal • them •Loosey“Devious and diabolical, Herculine is a jaw-dropping and completely unpredictable literary bewitchment about trauma, desire, and identity.” —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since ...

From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them…or be destroyed.A picture is worth a thousand nightmares.Art has always been an escape for struggling painter Lewis Dixon. But other than his mom, who has r...

“If you’re a fan of Stephen King and Stranger Things, then this is the book for you.” —Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling authorStranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling horror novel based on the terrifying urban legend about a video game created by the government for psychological warfare.October, 1982. Forced to move to the quiet seaside town of Tasker Bay by her mother, the only ...

**Annihilation meets Manhunt in this gloriously queer psychedelic trip into the heart of an eldritch wood and the horrors of (cis)terhood."A bizarre and fiercely original splatterpunk phantasmagoria of queerness. Deranged and gleefully weird as f*ck, this is an impressive debut from a singular literary talent." —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke**I see something out there, in the woods. It does not have a face.

This heart-pounding Southern gothic horror debut from Beatrice Winifred Iker, takes readers to Bricksbury University, the oldest and most storied HBCU in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets.Zora Robinson is an ambitious grad student in her dream program, Appalachian Studies, at Bricksbury University. When her thesis advisor hands her a strange diary and suggests she research the local folklore about a b...

From award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Kosoko Jackson comes his adult speculative debut, a stand-alone novel blending time travel and globe-hopping adventure, art history, and dark fantasy about magical paintings and the lengths people will go to collect them, destroy them…or be destroyed.A picture is worth a thousand nightmares.Art has always been an escape for struggling painter Lewis Dixon. But other than his mom, who has r...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER*FINALIST FOR A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST HORROR**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN AWARD*“Dear Readers: This is one wild book! . . . No holds barred.” —Margaret Atwood via Twitter“Mind-blowing. Equal parts brilliant and hilarious.” —Heather O’Neill, bestselling author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel and Lullabies for Little Criminals**From the critically acclaimed author of

For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, this strange and sexy novel of queer love in a small town is an unsettling reminder that the horrors of modern life is a monster ready to possess us all.Angelina Sicco was born and raised in Cadenze, an ugly little mountain town that's dead most of the year. Determined to be content with her lot in life, she walks her mongrel dog, attends her brother's heavy metal concerts, holds court in the loca...

“If you’re a fan of Stephen King and Stranger Things, then this is the book for you.” —Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling authorStranger Things meets The Walking Dead in this chilling horror novel based on the terrifying urban legend about a video game created by the government for psychological warfare.October, 1982. Forced to move to the quiet seaside town of Tasker Bay by her mother, the only ...

“A folktale, a whisper, and a dream all at once.”—Rory Power, author of Wilder Girls“If you love Kelly Link, Angela Carter, and Carmen Maria Machado, then Natalia Theodoridou is your new favorite author.”—Benjamin Percy, author of The Ninth MetalA stunning reimagining of Bluebeard—one of the most mythologized serial killers—twisted into a modern tale of toxic masculinity, a feminis...

**Southern Gothic meets slow-burn dread in this genre-bending horror novel where an impulsive outcast must confront his small town’s dark secrets."Deeply immersive and darkly mysterious. Certain to be one of the year's standout horror reads." ―Craig DiLouie, author of Episode Thirteen**Eighteen years ago, an infant Jesse Calloway was found wailing on the bank of a river, his mother dead beside him. The mystery of her death has haunted him all his life, and despite ...